Flight is an anthology that took the industry by storm. It moved from Image to Villard and this the 7th volume is reportedly the last volume. I've only read bits and pieces of the various anthologies mainly focusing on the stories by the creators I recognized, so I'll be skipping this one as well, but I think the end of the series is worth noting.

 

Frank Frazetta recently passed away, so I expect to see a lot more of these projects reprinting his comic book (and comic strip) work. I'm buying this based solely on the art that I've seen featured on a couple of the Johnny Comet strips that I've come across online.

 

Once again we've come to the end of the Previews and I'm done until next month. See you then.

I avoid reading the solicitation text for Savage Dragon because I don't want to have any clue about what may happen. This is a must buy every month for me.

 

I start with Marvel because I buy a fair amount of Marvel and they are outside the main book in their own little booklet. When Marvel joins the rest of Previews, then they will cease to be first

Deadpool... Deadpool ... Deadpool... he seems to be everywhere. Let's see how many covers feature a Deadpool character.

I've been very much looking forward to the end of this series because the end of the mini series means that the HC is on its way very soon. Young and Shanower have a synergy on these books that's hard to duplicate. as long as they are adapting the OZ books, I will be buying the hardcovers.

 

Page 14: Sky Doll: Lacrima Chrisit #1 (of 2)

Like all Soleil books, I'm waiting for this one in trade. I imagine that Marvel will collect this 2 issues mini series with the previous 2 issue mini series.

 

I'm a big fan of the West Coast Avengers which is where the (Vision and) Scarlet Witch's kids were done away with. I'm a big fan of Young Avengers which is where the Wiccan and Speed were hinted at being the kids of Scarlet Witch (and Vision). I'm a huge fan of Jimmy Cheung and wishes Marvel would give him more sequential work (he's been doing a lot of covers lately), so I'm the perfect fan for this series which is apparently Wiccan's search for his true parentage, includes Scarlet Waitch AND is drawn by Jimmy Cheung. My only worry is when will it be complete. The 9 issues are scheduled to be bi-monthly, so that's 18 months. Scheduling issues will push it back to 10 months. So join my here in about 3 years when then collection is finally released.

 

Page 45: Franken-Castle #19

Not a Punisher fan and I think Franken-Castle is just a dumb idea. However, my good buddy Mike Hawthorne is drawing it  AND it's written by Rick Remender (as all the Frank-Castle issues have been). I'm not going to spend any time reading it, but you should.

 

Hawkeye, Mockingbird and PHANTOM RIDER!!!! How can a WCA fan NOT read this book (even if it is a female Phantom Rider).

 

My fear is that the main line Steve Rodgers will become more and more like the Ultimate line Steve Rodgers. Marvel rarely keeps its characters out of their original identities for too ling, but if this new series does well, then maybe we will continue to see Rodgers outside the Captain America uniform.

 

I'm not sure what the appeal of having Milo Manara work on the X-men is... especially if it's not a mature book, but it could be interesting.

 

I'm loving Ba and Moon on Day Tripper. I'm vaguely interested in Casanova, so I think I'll grab this first issue and see if I'll be interested in the later collection.

 

This book has  2 things against it.

1) I hate the Omnibus format. It's just too many pages to read comfortably.

2) I hate adding a creator's name to the collection.